Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 00:25, Dale wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to switch ISPs over to Bell South. I can not get it to >> connect up though. I have tried wvdial and Kppp with no luck. This is >> what I am getting. >> > [snip] > >> I did a google search and nothing made sense to me. I did try adding >> lcp-max-configure 30 to /etc/ppp/options though. Still no go. >> >> Anybody have a clue on how to fix this?? >> > > This is not going to help, but for what it's worth I used to have the same > problem with a number of ISP dial-up numbers in the UK. I could get a > dialling tone but for some reason the ISP modem would not pick up/respond. My > modem would start the handshake but the ISP's would continue ringing. After > trying out about a dozen different telephone Nos or so, I managed to find one > (virgin.net) which worked without a problem; i.e. the ISP's modem would pick > up and the handshake complete. I never understood what was the cause of this > problem and would be interested to see what fixes it for you. > > Another thing, in the UK some ISP's modems are set to ignore calls which do > not identify their telephone number. In such cases the dial up connection > will not work if you withhold your number. If your phone settings are set to > automatically withhold the number then in the UK you would need to prefix the > dial up number with 1470, e.g. 1470 0845 0798313 > > Good luck! >
On this, I turned the volume up and it answers the phone just fine. It starts the handshake part then connects at 26400 like is usually does. The only difference is that BellSouth does not seem to send a login prompt and my system does know what to do so it just tries to connect blind as a bat without sending the login/password. We have caller ID here and it works fine. My brother who uses windoze and lives next door uses them and it works fine for them. I may try it again to see if anything has changed. Maybe it needed time to use the caller ID to see we are allowed to connect. I'm open to ideas though. I have tried Kppp, wvdial and pon and get no joy out of it at all. No worky. :-( Thanks Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part.
